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f thou workest at 
that which is before J^fS| 
thee, «'8M following right 

reason seriously, 
vigorously, <*s|calmly,^ 
without allowing' any 
thing else to distract 
c fei>^ ce ^^ keeping 



divrtfe part pure, 



if "thou shouldst'be 
bound to give it back 



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boldest to this, ^ 
expecting nothing*, 
fearing nothing,^ buf|^ c 
satisfied with t^ present 

activity according to 
nature,^ and with heroic 
truth in every word and 
sound which thou utterest, 

mnd there is no man whqfj^ 
is able to prevent this. 

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0% ®\part/^et not afar*<p 
-^JLOnly a tKm veil hangs between 
The pathways where we are. ^ 
^tg&* " God keep watch 'tween 
^1 Jfo -Jfe- thee and me"; - 
/ wi± Thtsus my prayer; 



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e looketh thy way,% f* 
^ C ^L, He lookefh mine, ^ 
< ^jSTd keeps us near. ^ 

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^ And thy way is not mine, «(§f 
Yet coming to the mercy *seat, 
u My soul will £ieet with thine, p 
God heep#$tch 'tween 
SB, r Sm thee and 



tnee ana me" 
I'll whisper there; 
HeblessetKthee, 



^H^T He blessejth 
And we are near, 

Julia A.Baker 



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HELPS TO 
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sure we should 
alt be happu as 
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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



The idea has been transmitted from genera- 
tion to generation, that happiness is one large 
and beautiful stone, a single gem so rare that all 
search after it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. 
It is not so. Happiness is mosaic, composed of 
many smaller stones. Each taken apart and 
viewed singly may be of little value; but when 
all are grouped together and judiciously com- 
bined and set, they form a pleasing and graceful 
whole — a costly jewel. Trample not under feet, 
then, the little pleasures which a gracious Provi- 
dence scatters in the daily path, and which, in 
eager search after some great and exciting joy, 
we are apt to overlook. Why should we always 
keep our eyes fixed on the bright, distant hori- 
zon, while there are so many lovely roses in the 
garden in which we are permitted to walk? The 
very ardor of our chase after happiness may be 
the reason that she so often eludes our grasp. 

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, 
you will find it, as the old woman did her lost 
spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. 

— Josh Billings. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





In Life's small things be resolute and great 
To keep thy muscles trained; know'st thou when 
fate 

Thy measure takes ? or when she'll say to thee, 
"I find thee worthy, do this thing for me!" 

— Emerson. 

"Put a seal upon your lips and forget what 
you have done. After you have been kind, 
after love hath stolen forth into the world and 
done its beautiful work, go back into the shade 
again and say nothing about it." 

Love is not getting, but giving; not a wild 
dream of pleasure, and a madness of desire — 
oh, no, love is not that — it is goodness and 
honor, and peace and pure living — yes, love is 
that; and it is the best thing in the world, and 
the thing that lives longest. 

— Henry van Dyke. 

I will this day try to live a simple, sin- 
cere, and serene life; repelling promptly every 
thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, 
impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerful- 
ness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of 
holy silence ; exercising economy in expenditure, 
carefulness in conversation, diligence in ap- 
pointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a 
childlike trust in God. — John H, Vincent. 




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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




"Stay at home," said Inclination, 

"Let the errand wait." 
"Go at once!" said Duty, firmly, 

"Or you'll be too late." 

"But it snows," said Inclination, 
"And the wind is keen." 

"Never mind all that," said Duty 
"Go and brave it, Jean." 



Jean stepped out into the garden, 

Look up at the sky, 
Clouded, shrouded, dreary, sunless, 

Snow unceasingly. 

"Stay!" again said Inclination, 

"Go!" said Duty, "Go!" 
Forth went Jean with no more waiting, 

Forth into the snow. 




iYou will smile if now I tell you, 

That this quiet strife, 
Duty conquering Inclination, 

Strengthened all her life. 

Sometimes on a little skirmish 

Hangs a nation's fate. 
Very much hung on that skirmish 

At the garden gate. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Some men want to have religion like a dark 
lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where no- 
body but themselves can get any good from it. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 



Try to care about something in this vast 
world besides the gratification of small selfish 
desires. Try to care for what is best in thought 
and action — something that is good apart from 
the accidents of your own lot. Look on other 
lives besides your own. See what their troubles 
are, and how they are borne. — George Eliot. 

When friendships are real, they are not 
glass threads or frost work, but the solidest 
things we can know. — Emerson. 

There is always hope in a man that actually 
and earnestly works. In idleness alone is there 
perpetual despair. . — Thomas Carlyle. 

God has a few of us whom He whispers in the 
ear; 

The rest may reason and welcome : 'tis we musi- 
cians know. — Robert Browning. 

The knowledge which a man can use is the 
only real knowledge, the only knowledge which 
has life and growth in it, and converts itself 
into practical power. 

— James Anthony Froude. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



So night is grandeur to our dust, 

So near is God to man, 
When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 

The youth replies, I can! 

— Emerson. 

It will be found everywhere that the men 
who have succeeded in business have been the 
men who have earnestly given themselves to it. 
Far more than mere talents or acquirements, en- 
thusiasm and energy in work carry the day. 

— Tullock. 

"A young man idle, an old man needy." 

"Nowhere is the goal of him who follows 
the route of Anywhere. The man who aims 
at nothing in particular invariably hits his 
mark." 

"If you start a wagon down hill it goes 
itself, but if you want to go up hill you must 
keep a pushin' and a pullin' — it is the same way 
with your business." 

He that despiseth little things, shall perish 
by little and little. — Solomon. 

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is 
with words as with sunbeams — the more they 
are condensed the deeper they burn. 

— Southey. 

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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



It is the easiest thing in the world for a man 
to deceive himself. —Benjamin Franklin. 

The nature which is all wood and straw is 
of no use; if we are to do well, we must have 



Ever judge of men by their professions. 
For though the bright moment of promising is 
but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if 
sincere in its moments, extravagant goodness, 
why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say — 
not by his performance; which is half the 
world's work, interfere as the world needs must 
with its accidents and circumstances: the pro- 
fession was purely the man's own. I judge peo- 
ple by what they might be — not are, nor will be. 



No backward glance shall hinder or appall me; 

A new life is begun: 
And better hopes and better motives call me 

Than those the past has won. 

— Lillian Knapp. 

All one's life is music if one touches the 
notes rightly and in tune. — Ruskin. 

If you wish to be borne with yourself, bear 




some iron in us. 



— Canon Farrar. 



— Robert Browning. 



with others. 



— Thomas A. Kempis. 



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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





After all, what would life be without fight- 
ing, I should like to know ? From the cradle to 
the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the 
business, the real, highest, honestest business, of 
every son of man. 

— Thomas Hughes. 







HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




The first thing a kindness deserves is ac- 
ceptance; the second, transmission. 

— George MacDonald. 

Probably he who never made a mistake 
never made anything. — Samuel Smiles. 

How much fretting might be prevented by a 
thorough conviction that there can be no such 
thing as unmixed good in this world! 

— Arthur Helps. 

Ability is of little account without opportunity. 

— Napoleon I. 

"All truth is from God, as all light is from 
the sun. . . All truth that bears on the 
culture of the human soul, the development of 
human life, is part of the unfolding revelation 
of the divine. So when we catch glimpses, in- 
timations, ideals, of those things that are finer 
and better than have ever yet been incarnated 
in the life of the race, we are anticipating that 
which is to be written on those new leaves of 
God's book, to be clearly read when they shall 
be turned, in His ever progressive, always ad- 
vancing, and never completed Bible." 

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack 
on your back, — Haliburton. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




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Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; 
Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; 
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life. 
Procrastination is the thief of time; 
Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 
And to the mercies of a moment leaves 
The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 

— Edward Young. 

We meet at one gate 

When all's over. The ways they are many and 
wide, 

And seldom are two ways the same. 

Side by side may we stand at the same little 

door when all's done ! 
The ways they are many, the end it is one. 

— Owen Meredith. 



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The most I can do for my friend is simply 
to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow 
upon him. If he knows that I am happy in lov- 
ing him, he will want no other reward. Is not 
friendship divine in this? 

— Henry David Thoreau. 

If we accept the simple and unadulterated 
gospel of a Father's love, and it makes us fit to 
live and ready to die, we do well to leave that 
gospel to our children as a valuable and sacred 
inheritance. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



If you've any debt to pay, 

Rest you neither night nor day 
Pay it. 



It is better to kno less than to kno much 
that ain't so. — Josh Billings. 



They are never alone that are accompanied 
with noble thoughts. — Philip Sidney. 



Four things a man must learn to do 
If he would make his record true : 
To think without confusion clearly; 
To love his fellow-men sincerely; 
To act from honest motives purely; 
To trust in God and heaven securely. 

— Henry van Dyke. 



Most of the work of the world is drudgery. 
I have seen President Roosevelt performing all 
day nothing but drudgery, but he didn't realize 
it was drudgery. The men who succeed do not 
know that they are performing drudgery. Don't 
work for wages. Work for the accomplishment 
of something. God put into the human mind a 
desire to do something. It is godlike. God 
made the world; we must make or do some- 
thing. — Leslie M. Shaw. 




eep your 
face always 
FiLVHovjard the 




and the shadows 
mil fall behind 




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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




This above all — to thine own self be true, 
and it must follow, as the night the day, thou 
canst not then be false to any man. 

—Shakespeare. 



When a man has not a good reason for 
doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting 
it alone. — Walter Scott. 



There can be no substitute for the world- 
old humdrum, commonplace qualities of truth, 
justice and courage, thrift, industry, common 
sense, and genuine sympathy with and fellow- 
feeling for others. — Theodore Roosevelt* 

The man who cannot be strong, cheerful, 
creative, in his own age, would find all other 
ages inhospitable and barren. 

— Hamilton W . Mabie. 



You will find it a safe rule to take a thing 
just as quick as it is offered — especially a job. 
It is never easy to get one, except when you don't 
want it; but when you've got to get work, and 
go after it with a gun, you'll find it as shy as 
an old crow that every farmer in the county has 
shot at. — George Horace Lorimer. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Take time to speak a loving word 
Where loving words are seldom heard; 
And it will linger in the mind, 
And gather others of its kind, 
Till loving words will echo where 
Erstwhile the heart was poor and bare ; 
And somewhere on thy heavenward track, 
Their music will come echoing back, 
And flood thy soul with melody, 
Such is Love's immortality. 

I expect to pass through this life but once. 
If therefore there is any kindness I can show, 
or any good I can do to any fellow-being, let me 
do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I 
shall not pass this way again. 

— A. B. Hegeman. 

If we stand idly by , if we seek merely 
swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we 
shrink from the hard contests where men must 
win at hazard of their lives and at risk of all 
they hold dear, then the bolder and stronger 
peoples will pass us by, and will win for them- 
selves the domination of the world. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 

There is nothing so strong or safe in an 
emergency of life as the simple truth. 

— Charles Dickens. 

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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




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We communicate happiness to others not 
often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, 
hut by the absence of fault-finding and censure, 
by being ready to sympathize with their notions 
and feelings, instead of forcing them to sym- 
pathize with ours. 

—James Freeman Clarke. 

Die when I may, I want it said of me, by 
those who knew me best, that I always plucked 
a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a 
flower would grow. —Abraham Lincoln. 

Do the duty next to you, leave the rest to 
develop itself. —F. W. Robertson. 

The absence of a poetic taste is a sad indi- 
cation of a lack of the imaginative faculty; and 
without imagination what is life ? 

— Richardson. 

What is good is worth repeating. 

— Plato. 

"Old wood to burn, 
Old wine to drink 
Old friends to trust, 
Old books to read." 

I am more and more impressed with the 
1^ duty of finding happiness. — George Eliot. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Take a dash of water cold 

And a little leaven of prayer, 
A little bit of sunshine gold 

Dissolved in the morning air; 
Add to your meal some merriment 

And a thought for kith and kin; 
And then, as a prime ingredient, 

A plenty of work thrown in : 
But spice it all with the essence of love 

And a little whiff of play: 
Let a wise old book and a glance above 

Complete a well spent day. 

" Whenever you feel blue 

Something for some one else go do/' 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



to 




Tongues in trees, 
Books in the running brooks, 
Sermons in stones and good in everything. 

—W. S. Peace. 

Nay, falter not; 'tis an assured good 
To seek the noblest; 'tis your only good 
Now you have seen it, for the higher vision 
Poisons all meaner choice for evermore. 

— George Eliot. 

"A noble soul is like a ship at sea, 
That sleeps at anchor when the ocean's calm; 
But when she rages, and the wind blows high, 
He cuts his way with skill and majesty." 

You surrender a dear friend at the call of 
death, and out of his grave the real power of 
friendship rises stronger and more eternal in 
your life. — Phillips Brooks. 

A man lives by believing something, not by 
debating and arguing about many things. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



Those who learn nothing, or accumulate 
nothing in life, are set down as failure because 
they have neglected little things. 
. — Samuel Smiles. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we often might win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

— Shakespeare. 



To be true — first to myself — and just and 
merciful. To be kind and faithful in the little 
things. To be brave with the bad; openly grate- 
ful for good; always moderate. To seek the 
best, content with what I find — placing princi- 
ples above persons and right above riches. Of 
fear, none; of pain, enough to make my joys 
stand out; of pity, some; of work, a plenty; of 
faith in God and man, much; of love, all. 

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges. 




Thy friends thou hast and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. 

— Shakespeare. 



Repose we may possess even in the most ar- 
duous toil ; ease we can never have while we are 
surrounded by conditions which are hostile to 
our highest life. 

— Hamilton W. Mabie. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




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"Have you had a kindness shown? 

Pass it on, 
'Twas not given for you alone — 

Pass it on. 
Let it travel down the years, 
Let it wipe another's tears, 
'Till in heaven the deed appears — 
Pass it on." 



A young man has always had to help make 
his opportunities, and he must do that to-day as 
ever. But young men fail more nowadays than 
they used to because they expect to reap almost 
as soon as they sow. That is the very great 
trouble with the young men of the present. 
They expect opportunities to come to them with- 
out application or proper shaping of things so 
that opportunities will drift their way. You 
have to keep your eyes open and catch hold of 
things ; they'll not catch hold of you as a rule. 

— James /♦ Hill. 




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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Good taste is essentially a moral quality. 
Taste is not only a part of an index of morality 
■ — it is the only morality. The first, last, and 
closest trial question to any living creature is, 
"What do you like?" — and the entire object of 
true education is to make people not merely do 
right things, but enjoy the right things. What 
we like determines what we are, and is the sign 
of what we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably 
to form character. — Ruskin. 

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which 
every man has many; not on your past misfor- 
tunes, of which all men have some. 

— Charles Dickens. 

Friendship hath the skill and observation 
of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance 
of the best nurse, and the tenderness and pa- 
tience of the best mother. — Clarendon. 

The true Christian is the true citizen, lofty 
of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a 
hero's deeds, but never looking down on his task 
because it is cast in the day of small things; 
scornful of baseness, awake to his own duties as 
well as to his rights, following the higher law 
with reverence and in this world doing all that 
in him lies, so that when death comes he may 
feel that mankind is in some degree better be- 
cause he has lived, — Theodore Roosevelt. 






HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




I learned to cultivate the qualities of cour- 
age and patience when I was 16 years of age. 
Soon my employers knew that I wanted to do 
the right thing. Bankers came to have confi- 
dence in me, and then my success followed, step 
by step, —John D. Rockefeller. 



Sleep sweetly in this quiet room, 

O thou, whoe'er thou art, 
And let no mournful yesterdays 

Disturb thy peaceful heart. 

Nor let to-morrow scare thy rest 

With thoughts of coming ill; 
Thy Maker is thy changeless friend, 

His love surrounds thee still. 
Forget thyself and all the world ; 

Put out each feverish light, 
The stars are watching overhead, 

Sleep sweetly then. Good night. 





HELPS TO 



Sir, my concern is not whether God is on 
our side; my great concern is to be on God's 
side, for God is always right. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





He who helps a child helps humanity with 
a distinctness which no other help given to hu- 
man creatures can possibly give. He who puts 
his influence into the fountain where the river 
comes out puts his influence in everywhere. No 
land it may not reach. —Phillips Brooks. 



All true work is sacred; in all true work, 
even if but true hand-labor, there is something 
of divineness. O brother, if this is not worship, 
then I say the more pity for worship, for this is 
the noblest thing yet discovered under God's 
sky. Who are thou who complainest of thy life 
of toil ? Complain not. Look up, my wearied 
brother : see thy fellow workmen there in God's 
eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving; 
sacred band of the immortals, celestial body- 
guard of the Empire of Mankind. Even in the 
weak human memory they survive as saints, as 
heroes, as gods ; they alone surviving, peopling 
they alone stand the unmeasured solitudes of 
time. To thee Heaven, though severe, is not 
unkind; Heaven is kind; as a noble mother, as 
that Spartan mother saying, when she gave her 
son his shield, With this, my son, or upon it. 
Thou, too, shalt return home in honour, to thy 
far distant home in honour, doubt it not, if in 
the battle thou keep thy shield. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



^HELPS TO HAPPINESS ^ | 




Write it on your heart that every day is the 
best day in the year. No man has learned any- 
thing rightly until he knows that every day is 
Doomsday. To-day is a king in disguise. To- 
day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the 
face of an uniform experience that all good and 
great and happy actions are made up precisely 
of these blank to-days. Let us not be so de- 
ceived; let us unmask the king as he passes. 

— Emerson. 



And one should give a gleam of happiness 
whenever it is possible. —George Eliot. 



There is a race of narrow wits that never 
get rich for want of courage. Their under- 
standing is of that halting, balancing kind which 
gives a man just enough light to see difficulties 
and start doubts, but not enough to surmount 
the one or to remove the other. They never get 
ahead an inch, because they are always hugging 
some coward maxim, which they can only inter- 
pret literally. "Never change a certainty for an 
uncertainty," "A bird in the hand is worth two 
in the bush," are their favorite saws; and very 
good ones they are, too, but not to be followed 
too slavishly. —William Mathews. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




If you strike a thorn or rose, 

Keep a Goin' ! 
If it hails or if it snows 

Keep a Goin' ! 
'Tain't no use to sit and whine 
When the fish ain't on your line, 
Bait your hook and keep on tryin'- 
Keep a Goin' ! 



If the weather kills your crop 

Keep a Goin' ! 
When you tumble from the top 

Keep a Goin' ! 
S'pose you're out of every dime 
Gettin' broke ain't any crime; 
Tell the world you're feelin' prime- 
Keep a Goin' ! 



When it looks like all is up 

Keep a Goin' ! 
Drain the sweetness from the cup, 

Keep a Goin' ! 
See the wild birds on the wing, 
Hear the bells that sweetly ring ; 
When you feel like sighin' — sing; 
Keep a Goin' ! 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Words are things, and a small drop of ink 
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces 
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, 
think. — Byron. 

Try to be happy in this present moment, and 
put not off being so to a time to come ; as though 
that time should be of another make from this, 
which has already come, and is sure. 

— T. Fuller. 

Ask yourself what you would have been if 
you had never been tempted, and own what a 
blessed thing the educating power of tempta- 
tion is. — Phillips Brooks. 

"Drop the subject when you cannot agree; 
there is no need to be bitter because you know 
you are right." 

"And he who serves his brother best, 
Gets nearer God than all the rest." 

We make way for the man who boldly 
pushes past us. — Bovee. 

Whoever you are, I earnestly entreat you to 
dispatch your business as soon as possible, and 
then depart, unless you come hither, like an- 
other Hercules, to lend some friendly assistance, 
for here will be work to employ you and as many 
as enter this place. — Aldus Pius Manutius, 

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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Blessed be the man whose work drives him. 
Something must drive men; and if it is whole- 
some industry, they have no time for a thousand 
torments and temptations. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little 
spark of celestial fire called Conscience. 

— George Washington. 

I believe that this matter of specialization is 
already — and as the years pass will become 
more and more — the keynote of success. The 
world's effective workers are constantly increas- 
ing in number. Competition is growing stead- 
ily keener. To win recognition a man will have 
to do one thing extremely well. If I were giving 
just one word of advice to a young man I should 
say — concentrate. — Alfred Harmsworth. 

Do not conclude that a man is modest be- 
cause he lowers his eyes before eulogy. Ob- 
serve, rather, whether he holds his head high be- 
fore just criticism. — Charles Wagner. 

Give us, give us, the man who sings at his 
work! Be his occupation what it may, he is 
equal to any of those who follow the same pur- 
suit in silent sullenness. He does more in the 
same time — he will do it better — he will perse- 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



@3> HELPS TO HAPPINESS ^ 



This is peace : 
To conquer love of self and lust of life, 
To tear deep-rooted passion from the heart, 
To still the inward strife; 



For love to clasp Eternal Beauty close; 

For glory to be Lord of self; for pleasure 
To live beyond the gods; for countless wealth 

To lay up lasting treasure. 



Of perfect service rendered, duties done 
In charity, soft speech, and stainless days: 

These riches shall not fade away in life, 
Nor any death dispraise. 



Then Sorrow ends, for Life and Death have 
ceased ; 

How should lamps flicker when their oil is 
spent ? 

The old sad count is clear, the new is clean; 
Thus hath a man content. 

— Edwin Arnold. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



They who love best need friendship most; 

Hearts only thrive on varied good; 
And he who gathers from a host 

Of friendly hearts his daily food, 
Is the best friend that we can boast. 

— /, G. Holland. 

To be glad of life because it gives you the 
chance to love and to work and to play and to 
look up at the stars ; to be satisfied with your pos- 
sessions but not contented with yourself until 
you have made the best of them; to despise 
nothing in the world except falsehood and mean- 
ness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to 
be governed by your admirations rather than by 
your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your 
neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gen- 
tleness of manners ; to think seldom of your ene- 
mies, often of your friend, and every day of 
Christ; and to spend as much time as you can 
with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors 
— these are little guide-posts on the foot-path to 
peace, — Henry van Dyke. 

What is useful is beautiful. 

— Socrates. 



Hundreds can talk to one who can think; 
thousands can think to one who can see. 
r — Ruskin. 





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Simplicity is less dependent upon external 
things than we imagine. It can live in broad- 
cloth or homespun; it can eat white bread or 
black. It is not outward, but inward. A cer- 
tain openness of mind to learn the daily lessons 
of life ; a certain willingness of heart to give and 
to receive that extra service, that gift beyond 
the strict measure of debt which makes friend- 
ship possible ; a certain clearness of spirit to per- 
ceive the best in things and people, to love it 
without fear and to cleave to it without mistrust ; 
a peaceable sureness of affection and taste ; a gen- 
tle straightforwardness of action; a kind sin- 
cerity of speech, — these are the marks of the 
simple life, which is within. I have seen it in 
a hut. I have seen it in a palace. And where- 
ever it is found it is the best prize of the school 
life, the badge of a scholar well-beloved of the 
Master. 

— Henry van Dyke. 






For life, with all it yields of joy or woe 

And hope and fear, 
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love 
How love might be, hath been, indeed, and is. 

— Robert Browning. 






HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




So let my past stand just as it stands, 
And let me now, as I may grow old. 

I am what I am, and my life for me 
Is the best, or it had not been, I hold. 

— P. Carey. 

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward 
comfort will do no more for us than a golden 
slipper on a gouty foot. — John Bunyan. 

One example is worth a thousand arguments. 

— Gladstone. 

Labor rids us of three great evils: tedious- 
ness, vice and poverty. — French. 

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and 
to spend a little less, to make, upon the whole, a 
family happier for his presence, to renounce 
when that shall be necessary and not to be em- 
bittered, to keep a few friends, but these without 
capitulation; above all, on the same condition, 
to keep friends with himself: here is a task for 
all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 

In this world, it is not what we take up, but 
what we give up, that makes us rich. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 




^flELPS TO HAPPINESS 

If a man is unhappy this must be his own 
fault; for God made all men to be happy. 

— Epictetus. 

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every 
place, as if you meant to spend your life there, 
never omitting an opportunity of doing a kind- 
ness, or speaking a true word, or making a 
friend. — Ruskin. 



There may be doubts, however, as to which 
was using his time best. The one could afford 
time to think, and the other never could. The 
one could have sympathies and do kindnesses, 
and the other must needs be always selfish. He 
could not cultivate a friendship or do a charity, 
or admire a work of genius, or kindle at the 
sight of beauty or the sound of a sweet song — 
he had no time, and no eyes for anything but 
his law books. All was dark outside his read- 
ing lamp. Love and Nature and Art . . . 
were shut out from him. — Thackeray. 



Every day should be passed as if it were to 
be our last. — Publius Syrus. 

Three things are necessary for success — 
first, backbone; second, backbone; third, back- 
bone. — Charles Sumner. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Live not without a friend : the Alpine rock must 
own 

Its mossy grace or else be nothing but a stone. 

— W. W. Story. 



The day returns and brings us the petty 
round of irritating concerns and duties. Help 
us to play the man, help us to perform them with 
laughter and kind faces ; let cheerfulness abound 
with industry. Give us to go blithely on our 
business all this day, bring us to our resting beds 
weary and content and undishonored ; and grant 
us in the end the gift of sleep. Amen. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 



And it is only they who are faithful in a few 
things who will be faithful over many things; 
only they who do their duty in everyday and triv- 
ial matters who will fulfill them on great occa- 
• 

slonSf — Edwin Arnold. 



Blessed are they who have the gift of mak- 
ing friends, for it is one of God's best gifts.- It 
involves many things, but, above all, the power 
of going out of one's self, and seeing and ap- 
preciating whatever is noble and loving in an- 
other* 



— Thomas Hughes. 



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THE NATION'S PRAYER 

God give us men ! A time like this demands 
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready 
hands. 

Men whom the lust of office does not kill ; 

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; 
Men who possess opinions and a will; 

Men who have honor, and who will not lie ; 
Men who can stand before a demagogue 

And scorn his treacherous flatteries without 
winking. 

Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog 
In public duty and in private thinking ! 

— /• G. Holland. 




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If a man does not make new acquaintances 
as he advances through life, he will soon find 
himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his 
friendship in constant repair. 

— Samuel Johnson. 



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Go to your friend for sympathy ; that is nat- 
ural. Go to your books for comfort, for coun- 
sel. But the time will come when no book, no 
friend, can decide your problem for you ; when 
nothing can help you, nothing can save you, but 
yourself. Begin now to stand alone. 

— Angela Morgan. 

"Happiness is where it is found, and seldom 
where it is sought." 

We beseech Thee, Lord, to behold us with 
favour, folk of many families and nations, gath- 
ered together in the peace of this roof. Be pa- 
tient still; suffer us awhile longer to endure, 
and (if it may be), help us to do better. Bless 
to us our extraordinary mercies. Be with our 
friends ; be with ourselves. Go with each of us 
to rest. If any awake, temper to them the dark 
hours of watching; and when the day returns 
to us, call us up with morning faces and with 
morning hearts — eager to labour — eager to be 
happy, if happiness shall be our portion — and 
if the day be marked for sorrow — strong to 
endure it. — Robert Louis Stevenson. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Everybody likes and respects self-made men. 
It is a great deal better to be made in that way 
than not at all. — Holmes. 



There's nae power in Heaven or airth like 
love. It makes the weak strong and the dumb 
tae speak. — Ian Maclaren. 



So long as we love, we serve ; so long as we 
are loved by others I would almost say that we 
are indispensable; and no man is useless while 
he has a friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson. 



Reputation is what men and women think 
of us; character is what God and the angels 
know of us. — Thomas Paine. 



Give love, and love to your heart will flow, 

A strength in your utmost need ; 
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
Their faith in your work and deed. 
So others shall 
Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, 
From thy hand and thy heart, and they brave 
cheer, 

And God's grace fructify through thee to all. 
1^ — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 




^JfELPS TO 



LIFE'S MIRROR. 

There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, 
There are souls that are pure and true ; 

Then give to the world the best you have, 
And the best will come back to you. 

Give love, and love to your life will flow, 
A strength in your utmost need; 

Have faith, and a score of hearts will show 
Their faith in your word and deed. 

Give truth, and your gift will be paid in kind, 

And honor will honor meet; 
And a smile that is sweet will surely find 

A smile that is just as sweet. 

For life is the mirror of king and slave, 

'Tis just what we are and do; 
Then give to the world the best you have, 

And the best will come back to you. 

— Madeline S. Bridges. 



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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Be humble or you'll stumble. 

— D. L. Moody. 



It matters not how strait the gate, 

How charged with punishments the scroll ; 
I am the master of my fate; 
I am the captain of my soul. 

— W. E. Henley. 

Few will at first be pleased with those 
thoughts which are entirely new to them, and 
which, if true, they feel to be truths which they 
should never have discovered for themselves. 

— Arthur Helps. 

The little worries which we meet each day 
May lie as stumbling-blocks across our way, 
Or we may make them stepping-stones to be 
Of grace, O Lord, to Thee. 

— Anna E. Hamilton. 



Nothing is more significant of men's char- 
acter than what they find laughable. 

— Goethe. 



It is not required of every man and woman 
to be or to do something great ; most of us must 
content ourselves with taking small parts in the 
chorus, as far as possible without discord. 

— Henry van Dyke. 

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What is really wanted is to light up the spirit 
that is within a boy. In some sense and in some 
effectual degree, there is in every boy the ma- 
terial of good work in the world; in every boy, 
not only in those who are brilliant, not only in 
those who are quick, but in those who are solid, 
and even in those who are dull. 

— Gladstone. 



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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; 
but for one man who can stand prosperity there 
are a hundred that will stand adversity. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



Avoid excess in everything. 

— Socrates. 



It may be proved with much certainty that 
God intends no man to live in this world with- 
out working; but it seems to me no less evident 
that He intends every man to be happy in his 
work. It is written : "In the sweat of thy brow," 
but it was never written — "in the breaking of 
thine heart" — "thou shalt eat bread." I find 
that no small misery is caused by overworked 
and unhappy people, in the dark views which 
they necessarily take up themselves and force 
upon others of work itself. I believe the fact of 
their being unhappy is in itself a violation of 
divine law and a sign of some kind of folly or 
sin in their way of life. Now, in order that peo- 
ple may be happy in their work, these three 
things are needed: They must be fit for it; they 
must not do too much of it; and they must have 
a sense of success in it. —Ruskin. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes 
After its own self-working. A child's kiss 
Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; 
A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich ; 
A sick man helped by thee shall make thee 
strong ; 

Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense 
Of service which thou renderest 

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



Be not simply good — be good for something. 

— Henry David Thoreau. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Now is the time ; ah, friend, no longer wait 
To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer 
To those around whose lives are now so dear. 
They may not meet you in the coming year. 
Now is the time. 

Keep the upward windows open. Do not 
dare to think that a child of God can worthily 
work out his career, or worthily serve God's 
other children, unless he does both in the love 
and fear of God their Father. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

Every honest occupation to which a man 
sets his hand would raise him into a philosopher, 
if he mastered all the knowledge that belonged 
to his craft. — James Anthony Froude. 

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to 
market. It depends chiefly on two words — in- 
dustry and frugality. 

— Benjamin Franklin. 

Dare to look up to God and say: "Make use 
of me for the future as Thou wilt. I am of the 
same mind; I am one with Thee. I refuse 
nothing which seems good to Thee. Lead me 
whither Thou wilt. Clothe me in whatever 
dress Thou wilt." — Epictetus. 

When is man strong until he feels alone ? 

— Robert Browning. 






HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




It is not a question of how much we are to 
do, but of how it is to be done ; it is not a ques- 
tion of doing more, but of doing better. 

— Ruskin. 




Let those who thoughtfully consider the 
brevity of life remember the length of eternity. 

— Bishop Ken. 

I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; 
from the which as men of course do seek to re- 
ceive countenance and profit, so ought they of 
duty to endeavour themselves by way of amends 
to be a help and ornament thereunto. 

— Bacon. 



Do not be troubled because you have not 
great virtues. God made a million spears of 
grass where he made one tree. The earth is 
fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with 
grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and 
common fidelities, and you need not mourn be- 
cause you are neither a hero nor a saint. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 




Build a little fence of trust around to-day, 
Fill the space with loving works and therein 
stay; 

Look not through the sheltering bars upon to- 
morrow ; 

God will help thee bear what comes of joy or 
sorrow. —Mary Frances Butts. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the 
pitifullest of all the sons of earth, is no idle 
dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own. It 
is all thou hast to front eternity with. Work, 
then, even as He has done, and does, like a star, 
unhasting yet unresting. — Thomas Carlyle. 

Religion is the best armor in the world ; but 
the worst cloak. — John Bunyan. 

Tell me with whom thou art found, and I 
will tell thee who thou art. - — Goethe. 

Let us learn to be content with what we 
have; let us get rid of our false estimates, set 
up all the higher ideals — a quiet home; vines 
of our own planting; a few books full of the 
inspiration of a genius ; a few friends worthy of 
being loved and able to love us in return ; a hun- 
dred innocent pleasures that bring no pain or 
remorse ; a devotion to the right that will never 
swerve; a simple religion empty of all bigotry, 
full of trust and hope and love — and to such a 
philosophy this world will give up all the empty 
joy it has. — David Swing. 



You cannot dream yourself into a character; 
you must hammer and forge yourself one. 

—James Anthony Fronde. 

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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



THE HUMAN TOUCH. 

High thoughts and noble in all lands 
Help me. My soul is fed by such. 

But, ah, the touch of lips and hands, 
The human touch! 

Warm, vital, close, life's symbols dear: 

These need I most, and now and here. 

— Richard Burton. 




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Why shouldst thou fill to-day with sorrow, 
About to-morrow, 
My heart? 
One watches all with care most true, 
Doubt not that He will give thee, too, 
Thy part. 

■ — Paul Fleming. 



Let not another's disobedience to Nature be- 
come an ill to you ; for you were not born to be 
depressed and unhappy with others, but to be 
happy with them. And if any is unhappy, re- 
member that he is so for himself; for God made 
all men to enjoy felicity and peace. 

— Epictetus. 

There is an idea abroad among moral peo- 
ple that they should make their neighbours 
good. One person I have to make good: my- 
self. But my duty to my neighbour is much 
more nearly expressed by saying that I have to 
make him happy — if I may. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 



All service ranks the same with God, 
With God whose puppets, best and worse, 
Are we ; there is no last nor first. 

— Robert Browning. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Do not think it wasted time to submit your- 
selves to any influence which may bring upon you 
any noble feeling. —Ruskin. 



A happy man or woman is a better thing to 
find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radi- 
ating focus of good will ; and their entrance into 
a room is as though another candle had been 
lighted. He need not care whether they could 
prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a 
better thing than that — they practically dem- 
onstrate the great theorem of the Livableness of 

Life. — Robert Louis Stevenson. 



It is not written, blessed is he that feedeth 
the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A 
little thought and a little kindness are often 
worth more than a great deal of money. 

— Ruskin. 



To me there is no duty we so much under- 
rate as the duty of being happy. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




The world goes up and the world goes down, 

And the sunshine follows the rain; 
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown 
Can never come again. 

— Charles Kingsley. 

It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have 
the habit of looking on the bright side of things,, 

— Samuel Johnson. 

Remember there's always a voice saying the 
right thing to you somewhere if you'll only lis- 
ten for it. — Thomas Hughes. 

There are thousands willing to do great 
things for one willing to do a small thing. 

— George MacDonald. 

There are many attorneys, but few lawyers; 
many doctors, but few physicians; many peda- 
gogues, but few teachers; many storekeepers, 
but few merchants. Our country has reached 
the stage where it will pay any price for excel- 
lence. It is able and willing to do it. There 
are more ten-thousand-dollar jobs than there are 
ten-thousand-dollar men to take them. Of 
course there are men who would gladly take 
them, but the men with the capacity are few. 
First secure excellence, then set your price; the 
world will pay it. — Leslie M. Shaw. 

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Nothing in this world comes to people who 
will not work. Nothing worth having comes 
to those who do not or are not willing to make 
an effort to get it. — Theodore Roosevelt. 

People will remember the shining of the sun 
long after they have forgotten the thunder- 
storm. — Ian Maclaren. 

I cannot think but that the world would be 
better and brighter if our teachers would dwell 
on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happi- 
ness of Duty. — F. Lubbock. 

Let us therefore boldly face the life of strife, 
resolute to do our duty well and manfully; reso- 
lute to uphold righteousness by deed and by 
word; resolute to be both honest and brave, to 
serve high ideals, yet to use practical methods. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 



If I were to give advice, I would say: Begin 
at the bottom of the ladder; but be sure your 
ladder reaches above the basement. Don't try 
to get second-story pay for basement work. You 
will be lifted from the basement up higher if 
you are faithful. It makes little difference what 
you do, provided you do it better than it is done 
now. — Leslie M. Shaw. 





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WAITING. 

Serene, I fold my hands and wait, 

Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; 

I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, 
For lo ! my own shall come to me. 

I stay my haste, I make delays, 
For what avails this eager pace? 

I stand amid the eternal ways, 

And what is mine shall know my face. 

Asleep, awake, by night or day, 
The friends I seek are seeking me ; 

No wind can drive my bark astray, 
Nor change the tide of destiny. 

What matter if I stand alone? 

I wait with joy the coming years ; 
My heart shall reap where it hath sown, 

And garner up its fruits of tears. 

The waters know their own and draw 

The brook that springs in yonder heights; 

So flows the good with equal law 
Unto the soul of pure delights. 

The stars come nightly to the sky; 

The tidal wave unto the sea ; 
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, 
Can keep my own away from me. 

— John Burroughs. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low — an excellent thing in woman. 

— Shakespeare. 

Absence of occupation is not rest, 

A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. 

— Cowper. 

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble 
ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life — the 
life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to 
preach that highest form of success which comes, 
not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but 
to the man who does not shrink from danger, 
from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out 
of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 

Aggressive fighting for the right is the 
greatest sport the world knows. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 

In the hour of distress and misery the eye of 
every mortal turns to friendship : in the hour of 
gladness and conviviality, what is your want? 
It is friendship. When the heart overflows with 
gratitude, or with any other sweet and sacred 
sentiment, what is the word to which it would 
give utterance? A friend. 

— W. S. Landor. 



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He that is down needs fear no fall, 

He that is low, no pride ; 
He that is humble ever shall 
Have God to be his guide. 

I am content with what I have, 

Little be it or much ; 
And, Lord, contentment still I crave, 
Because thou savest such. 

Fullness to such a burden is 
That go on pilgrimage ; 
Here little, and hereafter bliss, 
Is best from age to age. 

— John Btinyan, 




That low man seeks a little thing to do, 

Sees it and does it ; 
This high man, with a great thing to pursue, 

Dies ere he knows it. 
That low man goes on adding one to one — - 

His hundred's soon hit; 
This high man, aiming at a million, 

Misses an unit. 
That has the world here — should he need the 
next, 

Let the world mind him! 
This throws himself on God, and unperplexed 
Seeking shall find him. 

— Robert Browning. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Is thy friend angry with thee? Then pro- 
vide him an opportunity of showing thee a great 
favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, 
and he will love thee again. — Richter. 



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I have never united myself to any church, 
because I have found difficulty in giving my 
assent, without mental reservation, to the long 
complicated statements of Christian doctrine 
which characterize their Articles of Belief and 
Confession of Faith. Whenever any church 
will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualifica- 
tion for membership, the Savior's condensed 
statement of the substance of both law and gos- 
pel, i 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
mind, and thy neighbor as thyself," that church 
will I join with all my heart and all my soul. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 



When you have a number of disagreeable 
duties to perform, always do the most disagree- 
able first. — Josiah Quincy. 



No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; 
no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. 

— William Penn. 



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If we could all see, and always see, the es- 
sential force which is in every good act, however 
slight it is, and in every true belief, however 
meagre it is, how different our lives would be. 

—Phillips Brooks. 

Everything that is mine, even to my life, I 
may give to one I love, but the secret of my 
friend is not mine to give. 

— Philip Sidney. 

There is a great difference between a young 
man looking for a situation and one looking for 
work. — Leslie M. Shaw. 



Joy on, joy on, the foot-path road, 

And merrily trip the stile-a ; 
Your merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad one tires in a mile-a. 

— Shakespeare. 

He jests at scars that never felt a wound. 

— Shakespeare. 

Nothing in this world comes to people who 
will not work. Nothing worth having comes to 
those who do not or are not willing to make an 
effort to get it. — Theodore Roosevelt. 





I^JHELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Of course what we have a right to expect 
from the American boy is that he shall turn out 
to be a good American man. Now, the chances 
are strong that he won't be much of a man un- 
less he is a good deal of a boy. He must not 
be a coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk or a 
prig. He must work hard and play hard. He 
must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able 
to hold his own under all circumstances and 
against all comers. It is only on these condi- 
tions that he will grow into the kind of a man 
of whom America can really be proud. In life 
as in a football game the principle to follow is : 
Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, 
but hit the line hard. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 





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There is nothing that we can properly call 
our own but our time, and yet everybody fools 
us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man 
borrows a paltry sum of money, there must 
needs be bonds and securities, and every com- 
mon civility is presently charged upon account. 
But he who has my time thinks he owes me 
nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude 
itself can never repay, — Seneca. 




There shall never be one lost good ! What was, 
shall live as before; 
The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying 
sound ; 

What was good shall be good, with, for evil so 
much good more; 
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven 
a perfect round. 

— Robert Browning. 



To have what we want is riches; but to be 
able to do without is power. 

— George MacDonald. 



Great privileges never go save in company 
with grave responsibilities. 

— Hamilton W . Mabie. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




You'll find that education Is about the only 
thing lying around loose in this world, and that 
it's about the only thing that a fellow can have 
as much of as he's willing to haul away. Every- 
thing else is screwed down tight and the screw- 
driver lost. — George Horace Lorimer. 

Only grant my soul may carry high through 

death her cup unspilled, 
Brimming though it be with knowledge, life's 

loss drop by drop distilled, 
I shall boast it mine — the balsam, bless each 

kindly wrench that wrung 
From life's tree its inmost virtue, tapped the 

root whence pleasures sprung, 
Barked the bole, and broke the bough, and 

bruised the berry, left all grace 
Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in 

its place! 

— Robert Browning. 

No one is useless in the world who lightens 
the burden of it for any one else. 

— Charles Dickens. 

The bird that flutters least is longest on the 
wing. — Camper. 

We hardly find any persons of good sense, 
save those who agree with us. 

■ — La Rochefoucauld. 
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Knowing ourselves, our world, our task so great, 
Our time so brief, 'tis clear if we refuse 
The means so limited, the tools so rude 
To execute our purpose, life will fleet, 
And we shall fade, and leave our task undone. 
We will be wise in time : what though our work 
Be fashioned in despite of their ill-service, 
Be crippled every way? 'Twere little praise 
Did full resources wait on our good will 
At every turn. Let all be as it is. 

— Robert Browning. 



Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I 
have tried with all my heart to do well. What 
I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself 
to completely. Never to put one hand to any- 
thing on which I would throw my whole self, 
and never to affect depreciation of my work, 
whatever it was, I find now to have been golden 

ru ^ es * — Charles Dickens. 




May all go well with you ! May life's short 
day glide on peaceful and bright, with no more 
clouds than may glisten in the sunshine, no more 
rain than may form a rainbow. 

—Richter. 





A FRIEND. 

Deliberate long before thou consecrate a 
friend; and when thy impartial judgment con- 
cludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him 
joyfully and entertain him wisely; impart thy 
secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with 
his; he is thy very self: and use him so; if thou 
firmly believe him faithful, thou makest him so. 

— F, Quarks. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Believe nothing against another but on good 
authority; nor report what may hurt another, 
unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it. 

— William Penn. 



"We pardon in the degree that we love." 



If any man can convince me and bring home 
to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly 
will I change; for I search after truth, by which 
man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed 
who abideth on still in his deception and ignor- 

ance# — Marcus Aurelius. 



Clothe with life the weak intent, 
Let me be the thing I meant, 
Let me find in Thy employ 
Peace that dearer is than joy, 
Out of self to love be led, 
And to heaven acclimated, 
Until all things sweet and good 
Seem my natural habitude. 

— John G. Whittier. 



Go often to the house of thy friend; 
weeds soon choke up the unused path. 

— Scandinavian proverb 



for 





Seek not to pour the world into thy little mould, 
Each as its nature is, its being must unfold; 
Thou art but as a string in life's vast sounding 
board, 

And other strings as sweet will not with thine 
accord _ Wm #7 story. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 

rr ^— ^*^^C 



Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot 
one may be, the gun he carries on such expedi- 
tions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. 

— Artemus Ward. 

We are firm believers in the maxim, that for 
all right judgment of any man or thing it is use- 
ful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities be- 
fore pronouncing on his bad. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 

What are you worth to-day ? Not in money, 
but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell 
yourself the truth about yourself. 

— George H. Hepworth. 

The law of worthy life is . funda- 
mentally the law of strife. . . . It is only 
through labor and painful effort, by grim energy 
and resolute courage, that we move on to better 
things. — Theodore Roosevelt. 

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. Such 
dangers are from without, and are but petty. 
We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the 
real robbers; vices the real murderers. The 
great dangers are within us. 

— Victor Hugo. 

Every brave heart must treat society as a 
child, and never allow it to dictate. 

— Emerson. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



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To keep my health ! 
To do my work ! 
To live ! 

To see to it I grow and gain and give ! 
Never to look behind me for an hour ! 
To wait in weakness, and to walk in power ; 
But always fronting onward to the light, 
Always and always facing toward the right, 
Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray — 
On, with what strength I have ! 
Back to the way! 

— Charlotte Perkins Stetson. 




w^JHELPS TO HAPPINESS _^ $| 

Whichever way the wind doth blow 
Some heart is glad to have it so; 
Then blow it east or blow it west, 
The wind that blows that wind is best. 

— C, A, Mason. 



It does not take great men to do great 
things; it only takes consecrated men. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

Who has the clearest and intensest vision of 
what is at issue in the great battle of life, and 
who quits himself in it most manfully, will be 
the first to acknowledge that for him there has 
been no approach to victory except by the faith- 
ful doing day by day of the work which lay at 
his own threshold. —Thomas Hughes. 



"A friend may well be reckoned a master- 
piece of nature." 

\ 

To work, to help and to be helped, to learn 
sympathy through suffering, to learn faith by 
perplexity, to reach truth through wonder, — 
behold ! this is what it is to prosper, this is what 

[t is t0 live - —Phillips Brooks. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



"He that brings sunshine into the lives of 
others cannot keep it from himself." 



"This world is a difficult world indeed, 
And people are hard to suit, 

And the man who plays on the violin 
Is a bore to the man with a flute." 



"I would flood your path with sunshine; I would 

fence you from all ill ; 
I would crown you with all blessings, if I could 

but have my will ; 
Aye ! but human love may err, dear, and a power 

all wise is near; 
So I only pray, God bless you, and God keep 

you through the year," 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




If I have faltered more or less 
In my great task of happiness; 
If I have moved among my race 
And shown no glorious morning face ; 
If beams from happy human eyes 
Have moved me not; if morning skies, 
Books, and my food, and summer rain 
Knocked on my sullen heart in vain ; 
Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure take, 
And stab my spirit broad awake. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 




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Make yourself necessary to somebody. 

— Emerson. 




Do not look forward to what might happen 
to-morrow; the same everlasting Father who 
cares for you to-day will take care of you to- 
morrow, and every day. Either He will shield 
you from suffering, or He will give you unfail- 
ing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, and 
put aside all anxious thoughts and imagina- 

tions ' —St. Francis de Sales. 

He that cannot think, is a fool; 
He that will not, is a bigot ; 
He that dare not, is a slave. 
Inscription on the wall of Andrew Carnegie's 
Library. 



"A little thing, a sunny smile, 

A loving word at morn. 

And all day long the day shone bright, 
The cares of life were made more light, 

And sweetest hopes were born." 



Much of our dissension is due to misunder- 
standing, which could be put right by a few 
honest words and a little open dealing. 

— Black. 




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This truth comes to us more and more the 
longer we live : that on what field or in what uni- 
form or with what aims we do our duty, mat- 
ters very little, or even what our duty is. Great 
or small, splendid or obscure. Only to find our 
duty certainly, and somewhere, somehow, to do 
it faithfully, makes us good, strong, happy and 
useful men, and tunes our lives into some feeble 
echo of the life of God. 

— Phillips Brooks. 





Without distinction, without calculation, 
without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon 
the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon 
the rich, who often need it most; most of all 
upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and 
for whom perhaps we each do least of all. 

— Henry Drummond. 





HE^S TO HAPPINKS 




It is not work that kills men; it is worry. 
Work is healthy ; you can hardly put more upon 
a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the 
blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the 
machinery, but the friction. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

I think that good must come of good, 

And ill of evil — surely unto all 

In every place or time, seeing sweet fruit 

Groweth from wholesome roots, or bitter things 

From poison stocks : yea, seeing, too, how spite 

Breeds hate — and kindness friends — or patience 

Peace. — Edwin Arnold. 

It is a wise man who knows his own busi- 
ness; and a wiser one who thoroughly attends 
to it. — H. L. Wayland. 

"In the morning of life, work; in the mid- 
day, give counsel; in the evening, pray." 

The very art of life, far as I have been able 
to observe, consists in fortitude and persever- 
ance. — Walter Scott. 

Our friends see the best in us, and by that 
very fact call forth the best from us. 

— Black. 



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THE RECESSIONAL. 

God of our fathers, known of old, 
Lord of our far-flung battle line, 

Beneath whose awful hand we hold 
Dominion over palm and pine, 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest w r e forget ! 

The tumult and the shouting dies, 
The Captains and the Kings depart, 

Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, 
A humble and a contrite heart. 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 

Far-called, our navies melt away, 

On dune and headland sinks the fire, 

Lo, all our pomp of yesterday 
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! 

Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget ! 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




If, drunk with sight of power, we loose 
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, 

Such boasting as the Gentiles use, 
Or lesser breeds without the Law, 

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 

Lest we forget — lest we forget! 

For heathen heart that puts her trust 

In reeking tube and iron shard, 
All valiant dust that builds on dust, 

And guarding calls not Thee to guard, 
For frantic boast and foolish word, 
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord ! 

— Amen. 

— Rudyard Kipling. 






HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Put out of your thought the past whatever 
it may be ; let go even the future with its golden 
dream and its high ideal; and concentrate your 
soul in this burning, present moment. For the 
man who is true to the present, is true to his 
best; and the soul that wins the ground imme- 
diately before it, makes life a triumph. 

— Ozora Stearns Davis. 

The most unhappy man or woman on earth 
is the one who rises in the morning with nothing 
to do and wonders how he will pass off the day. 

— Leslie M. Shaw. 



If to do were as easy as to know what were 
good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor 
men's cottages princes' palaces. 

— Shakespeare. 

It is easy to sit outside and say how the man 
inside should run the machine, but it is not so 
easy to go inside and run the machine yourself. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 

You find yourself refreshed by the presence 
of cheerful people. Why not make earnest ef- 
fort to confer that pleasure on others! You 
will find half the battle is ; gained if you never 
allow yourself to say anything gloomy. 

— L. M. Child. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on 
the grass under the trees on a summer's day, lis- 
tening to the murmur of water, or watching the 
clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste 



of time. 



-/. Lubbock, 



To-day is given us by Him to whom belong 
days — we have the power to use it as we please ; 
we are responsible for its proper use; how im- 
portant that we do the proper work of to-day in 
the sphere of to-day! ^Abraham Lincoln. 



It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to 
have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing 
save by effort. —Theodore Roosevelt. 



To live content with small means; to seek 
elegance rather than luxury, and refinement 
rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respect- 
able and wealthy, not rich ; to study hard, think 
quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to 
stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open 
heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, 
await occasions, hurry never — in a word, to let 
the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up 
through the common : this is to be my symphony. 



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William Henry Channing.- 
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There is not an angel added to the Host of 
Heaven but does its blessed work on earth in 
those that loved it here. 

—Charles Dickens. 



The choir invisible! Who are members of 
it, if not all those who in any way are doing the 
day's work, whatever it may be, as well as they 
know how; who are trying to make the world 
happier and pleasanter for those to whom their 
lives are naturally bound. 

— John White Chadwick. 

Let us never covet fluency; it is a fatal gift. 
Let every man covet eloquence. It is to speak 
the right thing at the right time, in the right 
way. —F. W. Robertson. 

Let the weakest, let the humblest remember, 
that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed 
around him almost a heaven. Kindly words, 
sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against 
wounding men's sensitiveness — these cost very 
little, but they are priceless in their value. Are 
they not almost the staple of our daily happi- 
ness ? From hour to hour, from moment to mo- 
ment, we are supported, blest, by small kind- 




"Worship God by doing good, 

Works, not words ; kind acts, not creeds ! 
He who loves God as he should 

Makes his heart's love understood by kind 
deeds." 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




There's no slipping up hill again, and no 
standing still, when once you've begun to slip 
down. — George Eliot. 

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testa- 
ment ; adversity is the blessing of the New. 

Prosperity is not without many fears and 
distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts 
and hopes. — Bacon. 

And only the Master shall praise us, 

And only the Master shall blame, 
And no one shall work for money, 
And no one shall work for fame : 
But each for the joy of the working and each 

in his separate star 
Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the 
God of things as they are. 

— Rudyard Kipling. 

This life is a short minute. Eternity fol- 
lows. — Roger Williams. 

There are people who go about the world 
looking for slights and they are necessarily mis- 
erable, for they find them at every turn. 

— Henry Drummond. 

The business of life is largely made up of 
minute affairs, requiring only judgment and dili- 
*A>jgence. — Henry Ward Beecher. 






We have need of patience with ourselves 
and with others; with those below, and those 
above us, and with our own equals; with those 
who love us and those who love us not ; for the 
greatest things and for the least; against sud- 
den inroads of trouble, and under our daily 
burdens; disappointments as to the weather; 
or the breaking of the heart; in the weariness 
of the body, or the wearing of the soul; in our 
own failure of duty, or others' failure toward 
us; in everyday wants, or in the aching of sick- 
ness or the decay of age ; in disappointment, be- 
reavement, losses, injuries, reproaches; in heavi- 
ness of the heart, or its sickness amid delayed 
hopes. In all these things, from childhood's 
little troubles to the martyr's sufferings, patience 
is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for 
the love of God. _ K Bt p useym 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Let men see that you are real— inconsistent, 
it may be — sinful, oh! full of sin, impetuous, 
hasty, perhaps stern. But compel them to feel 
that you are earnest. This is the secret of in- 
fluence. —F. W. Robertson. 

A great part of the happiness of life consists 
not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A 
masterly retreat is in itself a victory. 

— Longfellow. 



Industry is one other really great thing you 
will need. If you want the highest positions you 
must pay the price. This world runs a one- 
priced store and has no bargain-counter. Don't 
expect the goods unless you pay the price. You 
may have to burn midnight oil and work while 
others sleep, but that's the price. You don't 
have to pay it, but that's the price if you want 
the goods. _ Ledk M> M 




4& HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Young men, you are tHe architects of your 
own fortunes. Rely upon your own strength of 
body and soul. Take for your star, self-reli- 
ance. Don't take too much advice — keep at 
your helm and steer your own ship, and remem- 
ber that the great art of commanding is to take 
a fair share of the work. Think well of your- 
self. Strike out. Be in earnest. Be self-re- 
liant. Be generous. Be civil. Read the papers. 
Advertise your business. Make money, and do 
good with it. Love your God and fellow-men. 
Love truth and virtue. Love your country and 
obey its laws. — Porter. 





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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Only be steadfast, never waver, 
Nor seek earth's favor, 
But rest; 

Thou knowest what God wills must be 
For all his creatures, so for thee 
The best. 

— Paul Fleming. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 






Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, 
in whatever commonplace and homely way, 
there God is hewing out pillars for his temple. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

It is by doing our duty that we learn to do 
it. So long as men dispute whether or no a 
thing is their duty, they get never the nearer. 
Let them set ever so weakly about doing it, and 
the face of things alters. They find in them- 
selves strength which they knew not of. 

— E. B. Pusey. 

If we want light, we must conquer darkness. 

— 7. T. Fields. 

Seek your life's nourishment in your life's 
work. —Phillips Brooks. 



If there be no nobility of descent, all the 
more indispensable is it that there should be no- 
bility of ascent, — a character in them that bear 
rule so fine and high and pure that as men come 
within the circle of its influence they involun- 
tarily pay homage to that which is the one pre- 
eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue. 

— Henry C. Potter. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS <£i® 




Consider the postage stamp, my son. It se- 
cures success through its ability to stick to one 
thing till it gets there. _ Josh BiUingSm 



"Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy 
shines farthest out to sea." 



The test of your Christian character should 
be that you are a joy-bearing agent to the world. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 

Just to fill the hour — that is happiness. 

— Emerson. 

God is as willing that you should read your 
lesson in the sunlight as in the storm. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



What stronger breastplate than a heart un- 
tainted ? 

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; 
And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Whose -conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

— Shakespeare. 

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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




A ruddy drop of manly blood 
The surging sea outweighs, 

The world uncertain comes and goes; 
The lover rooted stays. 

I fancied he was fled — 

And, after many a year, 
Glowed unexhausted kindliness, 

Like daily sunrise there. 

My careful heart was free again, 

O friend, my bosom said, 
Through thee alone the sky is arched, 

Through thee the rose is red. 

Me too thy nobleness has taught 

To master my despair; 
The fountains of my hidden life 

Are through thy friendship fair. 

— Emerson, 




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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will 
g° f ar - — Theodore Roosevelt. 



How many simple ways there are to bless. 

— Lowell. 



Our country calls not for the life of ease, but 
for the life of strenuous endeavor. 

— Theodore Roosevelt. 



But evil is wrought by want of thought, 
As well as want of heart. 

— Thomas Hood. 



Men are four: 
He who knows, and knows he knows, — 

He is wise — follow him. 
He who knows, and knows not he knows, — 

He is asleep — wake him : — 
He who knows not, and knows not he knows 
not, — 

He is a fool — shun him. 
He who knows not, and knows he knows not, — 

He is a child — teach him. 

— Arabian Proverb. 





For right Is right, since God is God, 

And right the day must win ; 
To doubt would be disloyalty, 

To falter would be sin. 

— F. W. Faber. 



"When a man leaves our side and goes to 
the other side he is a traitor. But when a man 
leaves the other side and comes over to us, then 
he is a man of great moral courage, and we al- 
ways felt that he had sterling stuff in him." 

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a 
k e ^' —Charles Dickens. 



A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is 
alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no mer- 
rier on velvet cushions than we did on wooden 

chairs - — J. K. Jerome. 



No one is so accursed by fate, 
No one so utterly desolate, 
But some heart, though unknown, 
Responds unto his own. 

—Longfellow. 



It is better to go down on the great seas 
which human hearts were made to sail than to 
rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. 

— Hamilton W. Mabie. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS ^ Jf^| 



"When in doubt, tell the truth." 

How hard it is to confess that we have 
spoken without thinking, that we have talked 
nonsense ! How many a man says a thing in 
haste or in heat, without fully understanding or 
half meaning it, and then, because he has said 
it, holds fast to it, and tries to defend it as if 
it were true ! But how much wiser, how much 
more admirable and attractive, it is when a man 
has the grace to perceive and acknowledge his 
mistakes ! It gives us assurance that he is capa- 
ble of learning, of growing, of improving so 
that his future will be better than his past. 

Truth forever on the scaffold; Wrong forever 

on the throne; 
Yet that scaffold sways the future and beyond 

the dim unknown 
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch 

above his own. 

— Lowell. 



"A tree is known by its fruit and not by its 
leaves." 

We should be as careful of our words as of 
our actions, and as far from speaking ill as from 
doing ill. — Cicero. 




Perseverance is irresistible. 

— Sertorius. 




Thank God every morning when you get up 
that you have something to do that day, which 
must be done whether you like it or not. Being 
forced to work, and forced to do your best, will 
breed in you ,. . a hundred virtues which 
the idle never know- —Charles Kingsley. 



Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is 
done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in 

P ride - —Ruskin. 



The first test of a truly great man is his 
humility. All great men not only know their 
business, but usually know that they know it, 
and are not only right in their main opinions 
but usually know that they are right in them; 
only they do not think much of themselves on 
that account and they see something divine in 
every other man. —Ruskin. 



If you and I — just you and I — 

Should laugh instead of worry; 
If we should grow — just you and I — 

Kinder and sweeter hearted, 
Perhaps in some near by and by 

A good time might get started ; 
Then what a happy world 'twould be 

For you and me — for you and me ! 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS <8tSE 




You have a disagreeable duty to do at twelve 
o'clock. Do not blacken nine and ten and eleven 
and all between with the color of twelve. 

— George MacDonald. 

The rotten apple spoils his companion. 

— Benjamin Franklin. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS^ ! 



I find earth not gray, but rosy, 

Heaven not grim, but fair of hue. 

Do I stoop ? I pick a posy; 

Do I stand and stare? All's blue. 

— Robert Browning. 

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest 
virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." 

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
But cheerily seek how to redress their harms. 
What though the mast be now blown overboard, 
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, 
And half our sailors swallowed in the flood — 
Yet lives our Pilot still. —Shakespeare. 

"Happiness does not depend on money or 
leisure, or society, or even on health; it depends 
on our relation to those we love." 

I am quite sure that one secret of youth is 
to keep up with determined and steady hand, 
one's own tone, to avoid ruts and narrowing 

circles - —J. F. W. Ware. 



Never esteem anything as of advantage to 
thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose 
thy self-respect. —Marcus Aurelius. 



Take hold, my son, of the toughest knots 
worthy of man's highest estate; have high, no- 
ble, manly honor. There is but one test of 
everything, and that is, is it right? If it is not, 
turn right away from it. _Henry A. Wise. 



$A A happy man or woman is a better thing to 

find than a five pound note. The entrance of 
k such a person into a room is as if another can- 
dle had been lighted. 

— Robert Louis Stevenson. 



The way to do a thing is to go and do it. If 
there is a particularly disagreeable task before 
you, begin with that, and so save yourself sev- 
eral hours of dread, aside from having it done 
the sooner. —Swett. 



Let us be content, in work, to do the thing 
we can and not presume to fret because it's little. 

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
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Jti hoM hard it 
is to dlzSBr and 
not be able to 
leave the vorld any M 
better for one's little ^ 
life in it I ^ A- * 






Abraham Lincoln. 





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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



We must not take the faults of our youth 
Into our old age; for old age brings with it its 



Neglect of small things is the rock on which 
the great majority of the human race have split. 



It is only by thinking about great and good 
things that we come to love them, and it is only 
by loving them that we come to long for them, 
and it is only by longing for them that we are 
impelled to seek after them, and it is only by 
seeking after them that they become ours and 
we enter into vital experience of their beauty 
and blessedness. —Henry van Dyke. 

A great deal of discomfort arises from over- 
sensitiveness about what people may say of you 
or your actions. Many unhappy persons seem 
to imagine that they are always in an amphithe- 
atre, with the assembled world as spectators; 
whereas, all the while, they are playing to empty 




own faults. 



- — Goethe. 



— Samuel Smiles. 



benches. 



•Arthur Helps. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





*HOW DID YOU DIE? 

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way 

With a resolute heart and cheerful? 
Or hide your face from the light of day 

With a craven soul and fearful? 
Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, 

Or a trouble is what you make it, 
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, 
But only how did you take it ? 

— Edmund Vance Cooke. 

*From 11 Impertinent Poems " 




Then a voice within his breast 

Whispered, audible and clear: 
"Do thy duty; that is best; 
Leave unto the Lord the rest!" 

— Longfellow. 




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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Every duty we omit obscures some truth we 
should have known. —Ruskin. 



O day of rest ! How beautiful, how fair, 
How welcome to the weary and the old ! 
Day of the Lord ! and truce to earthly care ! 
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be. 

— Longfellow. 



The more you say, the less people remember. 
The fewer the words, the greater the profit. 

— Fenelon. 

Let all your things have their places ; let each 
part of your business have its time. Resolve to 
perform what you ought ; perform, without fail, 
what you resolve. Lose no time ! Be always 
employed in something useful. 

— Benjamin Franklin. 



The greatest of faults, I should say, is to 
be conscious of none. —Thomas Carlyle. 



Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of man- 
kind proceed from idleness. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 
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HELPS TO 



Men give me credit for genius; but all the 
genius I have lies in this : When I have a sub- 
ject on hand I study it profoundly. The effect I 
make, they call the fruit of genius; it is, how- 
ever, the fruit of labor and thought. 

— Alexander Hamilton. 



Be the noblest man that your present faith, 
poor and weak and imperfect as it is, can make 
you be. Live up to your present growth, your 
present faith. So, and so only, do you take the 
next straight step forward, as you stand strong 
where you are now; so only can you think the 
curtain will be drawn back and there will be re- 
vealed to you what lies beyond. 

— Phillips Brooks. 

"Folded hands are ever weary, 
Selfish hearts are never gay; 
Life for thee hath many duties, 
Active be, then, while you may." 
Be strong to hope, O Heart ! 

Though day is bright, 
The stars can only shine 

In the dark night. 
Be strong, O heart of mine; 
Look towards the light. 

— A. Procter. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




MY PRAYER. 

If there be some weaker one, 
Give me strength to help him on; 
If a blinder soul there be, 
Let me guide him nearer thee, 
Make my mortal dreams come true 
With the work I fain would do; 
Clothe with life the weak intent, 
Let me be the thing I meant ; 
Let me find in thy employ 
Peace that dearer is than joy; 
Out of self to love be led, 
And to heaven acclimated, 
Until all things sweet and good 
Seem my nature's habitude. 

— John G. Whittier. 




Let us have faith that right makes might; 
and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do 
our duty, as we understand it. 

— Abraham Lincoln. 



He who is false to present duty breaks a 
thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when 
he may have forgotten its cause. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 



If money be not thy servant, it will be thy 
master. The covetous man can not so properly 
be said to possess wealth, as that may be said 
to possess him. — Bacon. 




"Choose a book as you would choose a 
friend." 



Be sure you give me the best of your wares, 
though they be poor enough ; and the gods will 
help you to lay by a better store for the future. 

— Henry David Thoreau. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




The heights by great men reached and kept, 

Were not attained by sudden flight; 
But they, while their companions slept, 
Were toiling upward in the night. 

— Longfellow. 



Seek not to have things happen as you choose 
them, but rather choose them to happen as they 
do, and so shall you live prosperously. 

— Epictetus. 



Whatever the number of a man's friends, 
there will be times in his life when he has one 
too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is 
lucky indeed, if he has not one too many. 

— Bulwer. 



It is not for nothing that a man has in him 
sympathies with some principles and repugnance 
to others. He, with all his capacities, and aspir- 
ations, and beliefs, is not an accident, but a 
product of the time. * * * The highest truth 
he sees the wise man will fearlessly utter ; know- 
ing that, let what may come of it, he is thus 
playing his right part in the world. 

— Herbert Spencer. 



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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute, 
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; 
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. 
Only engage and then the mind grows heated; 
Begin and then the work will be completed. 

— Goethe. 



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Free men freely work. Whoever fears God 
fears to sit at ease. 

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 



i Taking trouble is the best way of avoid- 
ing troubles. The lack of taking trouble has 
been the means of making trouble in many 
lives- n 




As a tired mother when the day is o'er, 
Leads by the hand her little child to bed, 
Half willing, half reluctant to be led, 

And leaves his broken playthings on the floor, 



Still gazing at them through the open door, 
Nor wholly reassured and comforted 
By promises of others in their stead, 
Which, though more splendid, may not please 

him more; 
So Nature deals with us and takes away 
Our playthings one by one, and by the hand 
Leads us to rest so gently that we go 
Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, 
Being too full of sleep to understand 
How far the unknown transcends the what 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




A little work, a little play- 
To keep us going — and so, good-day I 
A little warmth, a little light 
Of love's bestowing — and so, good-night! 
A little fun to match the sorrow 
Of each day's growing — and so, good-mor- 
row ! 

A little trust that when we die 

We reap our sowing ! And so — good-bye ! 

— George Du Maurier. 



What makes life dreary is want of motive, 

— George Eliot. 




O do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be 
stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to 
your powers. Pray for powers equal to your 
tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no 
miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day 
you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of 
life which has come to you by the grace of God. 

— Phillips Brooks. 





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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Every hand is wanted in this world that can 
do a little genuine, sincere work. 

— George Eliot. 

Go, put your creed into your deed, 
Nor speak with double tongue. 

- — Emerson. 




"The man who won the hurdle race, 

I'll mention here, my son, 
That he never would have won it 

If he hadn't tried to run. 
The man who did the splendid thing, 

As all of us now grant, 
He never would have done it 

Had he stopped to say, 'I can't 



Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever- 
living, ever- working universe; it is a seed-grain 
that cannot die. —Thomas Carlyle. 



Better a day of strife 
Than a century of sleep. 

— Father Ryan. 



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There are more opportunities than there are 
young men to take advantage of them. You say 
the country has grown larger, that life is more 
complex and that as a result the personal in- 
centive has vanished in proportion. Everything 
in that is perfectly correct except the conclusion. 
The country is bigger and life is more complex, 
but who will gainsay that if the country has 
grown bigger and the opportunities have with it, 
and that if life is more complex, it at least re- 
sults in a greater variety of opportunities. 

— James /. Hill. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




If I knew you and you knew me; if both of us 

could clearly see, 
And with an inner sight divine the meaning of 

your heart and mine, 
I'm sure that we would differ less and clasp our 

hands in friendliness, 
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree if I knew 

you and you knew me. 

— Nixon Waterman. 



We all have to learn, in one way or another, 
that neither men nor boys get second chances 
in this world. We all get new chances to the 
end of our lives, but not second chances in the 
same set of circumstances; and the great differ- 
ence between one person and another is how 
he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how 
he takes his fall if it is scored against him. 

— Thomas Hughes. 



There is positive proof in the single sunbeam 
of the existence of the sun. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



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Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; 

Home-keeping hearts are happiest; 

For they that wander, they know not where, 

Are full of trouble, and full of care; 

To stay at home is best. —Longfellow. 




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We make provisions for this life as if it were 
never to have an end, and for the other life as 
though it were never to have a beginning. 

— Addison. 



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The surest way not to fail is to determine to 
succeed. —Sheridan. 



There is genius and power in persistence. 
It conquers all opposers; it gives confidence; it 
annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in the 
determined man. People know that when he un- 
dertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his 
rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do* 
People know that it is useless to oppose a man 
who uses his stumbling blocks as stepping stones ; 
who does not know when he is defeated; who 
never, because of criticism or opposition, shrinks 
from his task. —Orison Swett Marden. 



Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much 
used till they are seasoned. Holmes. 



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^HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Here, in this little Bay, 

Full of tumultuous lite and great repose, 
Where, twice a day, 

The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes, 
Under high cliffs, and far from the huge town, 
I sit me down. 

For want of me the world's course will not fail ; 

When all its work is done the lies shall rot; 
The truth is great and shall prevail, 

When none cares whether it prevail or not. 

— Coventry Patmore. 



"The habit of helplessness begins early. It 
grows and with many men becomes fixed before 
the voting age. The first symptom is the dodg- 
ing of responsibility, the effort to unload on to 
somebody else," 



The essential tendency of life is towards hap- 
piness . . . Optimism is the only true condi- 
tion for a reasonable man. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did 
not know the value of five minutes. 



— Napoleon I. 



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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Hearts only thrive on varied good; 

And he who gathers from a host 
Of friendly hearts his daily food, 

Is the best friend that we can boast. 

— /. G. Holland, 



There are two good rules which ought to be 
written on every heart: Never believe anything 
bad about anybody unless you positively know 
it is true; never tell even that, unless you feel 
that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is 
listening while you tell it. 

— Henry van Dyke. 

I am glad to think 

I am not bound to make the wrong go right, 

But only to discover and to do, 

With cheerful heart, the work that God ap- 

P oints# — Jean Ingelow. 

If you want to be miserable, think about 
yourself, about what you want, what you like, 
what respect people ought to pay you, and what 
people think of you. —.Charles Kingsley. 



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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Insist on yourself; never imitate. There is 
at this moment for you an utterance brave and 
grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or 
the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from 
these. If you can hear what these patriarchs 
say, surely you can reply to them in the same 
pitch of voice. —Emerson. 



^FAILURE. 

What is a failure? It's only a spur 
To a man who receives it right, 

And it makes the spirit within him stir 
To go in once more and fight. 

If you never have failed it's an even guess, 

You never have won a high success. 

— Edmund Vance Cooke. 

♦From "Impertinent Poems " 




But noble souls through dust and heat 
Rise from disaster and defeat 
The stronger. 

— Longfellow. 



"Opportunity does not force itself upon us. 
If we are not watching it slips by and we lose 
it forever." 

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Be of good cheer, brave spirit; steadfastly 
serve that low whisper thou hast served; for 
know, God hath a select family of sons now 
scattered wide thro' earth, and each alone, who 
are thy spiritual kindred, and each one by con- 
stant service to that inward law, is weaving the 
sublime proportions of a true monarch's soul. 
Beauty and strength, the riches of a spotless 
memory, the eloquence of truth, the wisdom got 
by searching of a clear and loving eye that seeth 
as God seeth. These are their gifts, and Time, 
who keeps God's word, brings on the day to seal 
the marriage of these minds with thine, thine 
everlasting lovers. Ye shall be the salt of all 
the elements, world of the world. 

— Emerson. 




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The secret of success lies not in doing your 
own work, but in recognizing the right man to 

^° — Andrew Carnegie. 



It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes 
one can catch during the day, if one really sets 
about it. —Dinah Maria Mulock. 



Energy, system, perseverence — these are the 
great components of success in a young man's 
life, and with them he is bound to succeed as 
well to-day as he ever succeeded. He must have 
a set standard of achievement; he must make up 
his mind what he is going to do in the world and 
then keep fighting for this standard. 

— James J. Hill. 



"The secret of success consists not in the 
habit of making numerous resolutions about 
various faults and sins, but in one great, absorb- 
ing, controlling purpose to serve God and do 
His will! If this be the controlling motive of 
life, all other motives will be swept into the 
force of its mighty current and guided aright." 

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For what doth the Lord require of thee, but 
to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk 



humbly with thy God ? 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





-Micah. 



No man need hunt for his mission. His 
mission comes to him. It is not above, it is not 
below, it is not far- — not to make happy human 
faces now and then among the children of mis- 
ery, but to keep happy human faces about us all 
the time. —J. F.W.Ware. 



Every life is meant 
To help all lives ; each man should live 
For all men's betterment. 

— Alice Gary. 



For a man to grow a gentleman, it is of great 
consequence that his grandfather should have 
been an honest man; but if a man be a gentle- 
man, it matters little what his grandfather, or 
grandmother either, was. 

— George MacDonald. 




Where the press is free, and every man able 
to read, all is safe. —Thomas Jefferson. 

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder 
of the day. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 



Life is not so short but that there is always 
time enough for courtesy. 

— Emerson. 



We need, each and all, to be needed, 
To feel we have something to give 

Towards soothing the moan of earth's hunger 
And we know that then only we live 

When we feed one another as we have been fed, 

From the hand that gives body and spirit their 
bread. 

— Lucy Larcom. 



"The true optimists of life are not those who 
have always 'had things easy,' and know nothing 
of care or trouble ; neither are they the ones who 
resolutely refuse to acknowledge the presence of 
sin and sorrow. They are those who determine 
to meet facts honestly and can give themselves 
eagerly, untiringly, to fighting the sin and les- 
sening the sorrow and the pain." 




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The grand essentials of happiness are, some- 
thing to do, something to love, and something 
to hope for. —Chalmers. 



It is not what a man gets, but what a man is, 
that he should think of. He should first think 
of his character, and then of his condition. He 
that has character need have no fears about his 
condition. Character will draw after it condi- 

tIon * — Henry Ward Beecher. 




im at perfection in 
everything* ^GMft 
though in most 

attainable « <*am 
However 4hthe$ who aim . 
at it <©>and persevere*® 4& 
will come much nearer 
to it than those whose 
tejiness and despond- 
ency make them £"ive 
it up as unattainable <§ 



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^ The making of friends, who are real friends, 

fis the best token we have of a man's success in 
*^ e - — Edward Everett Hale. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




"Dreams fade, deeds fail and days depart- 
And all is changed in time and place ; — 

Thrice blessed are the pure in heart 
For only they shall see God's face." 



Where there is Faith there is Love ; 
Where there is Love there is Peace ; 
Where there is Peace there is God; 
Where there is God there is no Need. 



"If you wish to be held in esteem you must 
associate only with those who are estimable." 



The man who has begun to live more seri- 
ously within begins to live more simply without, 

— Phillips Brooks. 





The heart of man seeks for sympathy, and 
each of us craves a recognition of his talents and 
his labors. But this craving is in danger of be- 
coming morbid, unless it be constantly kept in 
check by calm reflection on its vanity, or by 
dwelling upon the very different and far higher 
motives which should actuate us. 

— Arthur Helps. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




A man is simple when his chief care is the 
wish to be what he ought to be ; that is, honestly 
and naturally human. We may compare exist- 
ence to raw material. What it is, matters less 
than what is made of it ; as the value of a work 
of art lies in the flowering of a workman's skill. 
True life is possible in social conditions in the 
most diverse, and with natural gifts the most 
unequal. It is not fortune, or personal advant- 
age, but our turning them to account, that con- 
stitutes the value of life. Fame adds no more 
than does length of days ; quality is the thing. 

— Charles Wagner. 



"Avoid multiplicity of business; the man of 
one thing is the man of success." 



The strength of your life is measured by the 
strength of your will. But the strength of your 
will is just the strength of the wish that lies be- 
hind it. And the strength of your wish depends 
upon the sincerity and earnestness and tenacity 
with which you fix your attention upon the things 
which are really great and worthy to be loved. 

— Henry van Dyke. 





A cottage will hold as much happiness as 
would stock a palace. _ James Hamilton. 



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He travelled here, he travelled there; 
But not the value of a hair 
Was head or heart the better. 

— Wordsworth. 



It is only a poor sort of happiness that could 
ever come by caring very much about our own 
narrow pleasures. We can only have the high- 
est happiness by having wide thoughts, and 
much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as 
ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings 
so much pain with it that we can only tell it from 
pain by its being what we would choose before 
everything else, because our souls see it is good. 

— George Eliot. 



The path of success in business is invariably 
the path of common sense. 

— Samuel Smiles. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Men have certain work to do for their bread, 
and that is to be done strenuously; other work 
for their delight, and that is to be done heartily; 
neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with 
a will, and what is not worth that effort is not 
to be done at all. —Ruskin. 



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If we work upon marble, it will perish; if 
we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we 
rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but 
if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue 
them with principles, with the just fear of God 
and love of fellow men, we engrave on those 
tablets something which will brighten all 
eternity, —Daniel Webster. 



Remember this- 
make a happy life. 



■that very little is needed to 
— Marcus Aurelius. 



To-morrow, when you go into your business 
and find twenty thousand dollars that can easily 
be scooped up, and the law on your side — and 
the devil, too — look into the invisible and see the 
crown which angels have for him who shall say, 
"Get thee behind me, Satan." 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 







HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




I hope I shall always possess firmness and 
virtue enough to maintain what I consider the 
most enviable of all titles, the character of an 



"honest man, 



-George Washington, 



The grand essentials of happiness are some- 
thing to do, something to love, and something to 

h °P e for - —Chalmers. 



I know of no more encouraging fact than the 
unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his 
life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to 
be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve 
a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; 
but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the 
very atmosphere and medium through which we 
look, which morally we can do. 

—Henry David Thoreau. 



Life is the highest gift that we have re- 
ceived. That gift should not be wasted. It 
must be made to serve the purpose which ani- 
mated the mind of the Lord of Life when He 
gave it to us. 




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Charles Wagner. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



You will find as you look back upon your 
life that the moments that stand out, the mo- 
ments when you have really lived, are the mo- 
ments when you have done things in a spirit of 

l° ve - — Henry Drummond. 



The man who has the good-will and the 
good-nature of the men among whom he lives, 
of the society in which he dwells, is like a craft 
that has wind and currents both in its favor. 



— Henry Ward Beecher 



Half the world is on the wrong scent in the 
pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in 
having and getting, and in being served by 
others. It consists in giving and in serving 
others. 




Henry Drummond. 



If for the age to come, this hour 
Of trial hath vicarious power, 
And blessed by Thee, our present pain 
Be Liberty's eternal gain; 
Thy will be done. 

— John G. JVhittier. 



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If the day and the night are such that you 
greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance 
like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more 
starry, more immortal, — that is your success. 
All nature is your congratulation and you have 
cause momentarily to bless yourself. 

— Henry David Thoreau. 

In deciding a matter of importance bring 
yourself to the point by such questions as these : 
fti) What has been done ? What is the state of the 
£$/f case at present ? What ought to be done ? Ex- 
press in writing the answers to your questions. 

— Arthur Helps. 

One never speaks of himself except at a loss. 

— Montaigne. 



Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou 
not two eyes of thine own ? 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



There is only one way to get ready for im- 
mortality, and that is to love this life, and live 
it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we 

can * — Henry van Dyke. 



If you want to succeed in the world you must 
make your own opportunities as you go on. The 
man who waits for some seventh wave to toss 
him on dry land will find that the seventh wave 
is a long time coming. You can commit no 
greater folly than to sit by the roadside until 
some one comes along and invites you to ride 
with him to wealth or influence. 

— John B. Gough. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Every thought and word and deed, of every 
human being, is followed by its inevitable con- 
sequence: for the one we are responsible; with 
the other we have nothing to do. 

— Gail Hamilton. 



Our grand business undoubtedly is : Not to 
seek for that which lies dimly in the future, but 
to do that which lies clearly at hand. 

— Thomas Carlyle. 



So many gods, so many creeds, 
So many paths that wind and wind ; 
When just the art of being kind 

Is all the sad world needs. 

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to 
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's 
minds about to religion. Bacon. 



The best fire doesna flare up the soonest. 

— George Eliot. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Thou goest thy way, and I go mine, 

Apart, yet not afar; 
Only a thin veil hangs between 

The pathways where we are. 
"God keep watch 'tween thee and me" ; 

This is my prayer; 
He looketh thy way, He looketh mine, 

And keeps us near. « 

Although our paths be separate, 

And thy way is not mine, 
Yet coming to the mercy-seat, 

My soul will meet with thine. 
"God keep watch 'tween thee and me" 

I'll whisper there; 
He blesseth thee, He blesseth me, 

And we are near. 

— Julia A. Baker. 



HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; 
and the pattern which was weaving when the 
sun went down is weaving when it comes up to- 
morrow, —Henry Ward Beecher. 



If thou wilt fill thy brain with Boston and 
New York, with fashion and covetousness, and 
wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and 
French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of 
wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine-woods. 

— Emerson. 



No matter about yesterday's shortcomings, 
to-day is yours. —Annie H. Ryder. 



It's easy finding reasons why other folks 
should be patient. —George Eliot. 



"Swift kindnesses are best; a long delay in 
kindness takes the kindness all away." 



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Resolved, to live with all my might while I 
do live ; Resolved, never to lose one moment of 
time, but improve it in the most profitable way I 
possibly can; Resolved, never to do anything 
which I should despise or think meanly of in 
another; Resolved, never to do anything out of 
revenge; Resolved, never to do anything which 
I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour 
of my life. —Jonathan Edwards. 




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I^HELPSTO HAPPINESS 




That best portion of a good man's life,- 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. 

— Wordsworth, 





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Who taught the raven in a drought to throw 
pebbles into a hollow tree where she espied 
water, that the water might rise so as she might 
come to it? Who taught the bee to sail through 
such a vast sea of air, and to find the way from 
a flower in a field to her hive ? Who taught the 
ant to bite every grain of corn that she burieth 
in her hill, lest it should take root and grow? 

— Bacon. 



A good deed is never lost; he who shows 
courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants 
kindness, gathers love. Basil 



A man who lives right, and is right, has 
more power in his silence than another has by 
his words. Character is like bells which ring 
out sweet music, and which, when touched acci- 
dentally even, resound with sweet music. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



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Beyond all doing of good is the being good; 
for he that is good not only does good things, 
but all that he does is good. 

— George MacDonald. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





Circumstances! I make circumstances. 

— Napoleon L 



Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep 
away a mist ; but, by ascending a little, you may 
often look over it altogether. 

— Arthur Helps. 

A little thought will sometimes prevent you 
from being discontented at not meeting with the 
gratitude which you have expected. If you were 
only to measure your expectations of gratitude 
by the extent of benevolence which you have ex- 
pended, you would seldom have occasion to call 
people ungrateful. —Arthur Helps. 

"To say well is good, but to do well is better. 
Do well is the spirit, and say well, the letter." 

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is in- 
firmity of will. —Emerson. 



If your name is to live at all, it is so much 
more to have it live in people's hearts than only 
in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill 
with tears when he thinks of the famous in- 
^ ventor of logarithms. —Holmes. 





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p live in the pres- 
ence of great 

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nal laws3®> *®that 
is what Keeps a man 
patient when the world 
ignores him Mb. *ts^ 
and calm and unspoiled 
When the world praises 
him „ _ . 

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"Men are usually tempted by the devil, but 
an idle man positively tempts the devil." 



"Silence, or neglect, dissolves many friend- 
ships." 



"Friendship supplies the place of everything 
to those who know how to make the right use of 
it; it makes your prosperity more happy, and it 
makes your adversity more easy." 



"It may be true that a rolling stone gathers 
no moss, but who desires to become moss-cov- 
ered, anyway?" 



If you wish success in life, make persever- 
ance your bosom friend, experience your wise 
counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hope 
your guardian genius. —Addison. 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



We shall reap such joys in the by and by, 
But what have we sown to-day? 

We shall build us mansions in the sky, 
But what have we built to-day? 

'Tis sweet in idle dreams to bask, 

But here and now do we do our task? 

lYes, this is the thing our souls must ask — 
"What have we done to-day?" 

— Nixon Waterman. 



HAPPINESS. 



If thou workest at that which is before thee, 
following right reason seriously, vigorously, 
calmly, without allowing anything else to dis- 
tract thee, but keeping thy divine part pure, if 
thou shouldst be bound to give it back imme- 
diately; if thou holdest to this, expecting 
W nothing, fearlncr nnf-hino*. hut satisfied with thv 



nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy 
present activity according to nature, and with 
heroic truth in every word and sound which thou 
utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no 
man who is able to prevent this. 

— Marcus Aurelius. 



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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not 
breaths; 

In feelings, not in figures on a dial, 
We should count time by heart throbs, He most 
lives 

Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the 
best. 



There is a necessary limit to our achieve- 
ment, but none to our attempt. 

— Phillips Brooks. 



It is not the going out of port, but the com- 
ing in, that determines the success of a voyage. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 




The secret of success in life is for a man to 
be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 

— Disraeli. 




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And so I find it well to come 
For deeper rest to this still room; 
For here the habit of the soul 
Feels less the outer world's control. 
And from the silence, multiplied, 
By these still forms on every side, 
The world that time and sense has known 
Falls off and leaves us God alone. 

— John G. Whittier. 



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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




A wrong-doer is often a man that has left 
something undone, not always he that has done 
something. —Marcus Aurelius. 




The truest self-respect is not to think of self. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 



It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the 
thought of a man's death hallows him anew to 
us; as if life were not sacred too — as if it were 
comparatively a light thing to fail in love and 
reverence to the brother who has to climb the 
whole toilsome steep with us, and all our tears 
and tenderness were due to the one who is spared 
that hard journey. —George Eliot. 



The test of your Christian character should 
be that you are a joy-bearing agent to the world. 

— Henry Ward Beecher. 



"To-day is your opportunity, to-morrow 
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"Now is the time; ah, friend, no longer wait 
To scatter loving smiles and words of cheer 
To those around whose lives are now so dear. 
They may not meet you in the coming year. 
Now is the time." 




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Lost — a golden hour, set with sixty diamond 
minutes. There is no reward, for it is gone 
forever. —Henry Ward Beecher. 



Be Strong! 

We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. 
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. 
Shun not the struggle ; face it. 'Tis God's gift. 
Be Strong! 

Say not the days are evil, — Who's to blame? 
And fold the hands and acquiesce, — O shame! 
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. 
Be Strong! 

It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, 
How hard the battle goes, the day, how long. 
Faint not, fight on ! To-morrow comes the song. 

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock. 



Nothing great was ever achieved without 
enthusiasm. —Emerson. 



"When the outlook is not good, try the up- 
look." 



"It is easy enough to be pleasant 

When life flows along like a song ; 
But the man worth while is the one who can 
smile 

When everything goes dead wrong." 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 





The soul grows into lovely habits as easily 
as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins 
to blossom into beautiful words and deeds that 
moment a new standard of conduct is established 
and your eager neighbors look to you for a con- 
tinuous manifestation of the good cheer, the 
sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or 
the inspiration you once showed yourself capable 
of. Bear figs for a season or two and the world 
outside the orchard is very unwilling you should 
bear thistles. —Kate Douglas Wiggin. 

Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest 
thou also be like unto him. 

— Proverbs 26:4. 

"The beauty of the house is order, the bless- 
ing of the house is contentment, the glory of the 
house is hospitality, the crown of the house is 
godliness.' ' 

"Let a man have firm faith that he is born 
to do some day what at the moment seems totally 
impossible and it is fifty to one that he does it 
before he dies — so great is the power of faith 
when applied to human endeavor." 

A man often pays dear for a small frugality. 

— Emerson. 





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HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




That is the path we all like when we set out 
on our abandonment of egoism — the path of 
martyrdom and endurance, where the palm- 
branches grow, rather than the steep highway of 
tolerance, just allowance and self-blame, where 
there are no leafy honors to be gathered and 

worn - —George Eliot. 




If any little word of ours can make one life the 
brighter ; 

If any little song of ours can make one heart the 
lighter ; 

God help us speak that little word, and take our 

bit of singing, 
And drop it in some lonely vale, and set the 

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"Hark, friends, it strikes! the year's last hour: 

A solemn sound to hear. 
Come fill the cup and let us pour 

Our blessings on the parting year. 
The years that were, the dim, the gray. 

Receive this night with choral hymn 
A sister shade as lost as they 

And soon to be as gray and dim. 
Fill high. She brought us both of weal and woe 
And nearer lies the land to which we go," 




HELPS TO HAPPINESS 



Here you stand at the parting of the ways ; 
some road you are to take; and as you stand 
here, consider and know how it is that you in- 
tend to live. Carry no bad habits, no corrupt- 
ing associations, no enmities and strifes into this 
New Year. Leave these behind, and let the 
dead Past bury its dead ; leave them behind, and 
thank God that you are able to leave them. 

— Ephraim Peabody. 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




Ring out the old, ring in the new, 
Ring, happy bells, across the snow; 
The year is going, let him go; 

Ring out the false, ring in the true. 

— Tennyson 



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INDEX 

Addison 122, 150 

Arabian Proverb 98 

Arnold, Edwin 35, 42, 83 

Aurelius, Marcus . . . .73, 106, 137, 152, 155 

Babcock, Maltbie Davenport 158 

Bacon, Lord . . . . 54, 90, 113, 142, 147 

Baker, Julia A. 143 

Balzac 149 

Basil 147 

Beecher, Henry Ward 5, 12, 34, 40, 54, 83, 90, 96, 113, 129, 

130, i37, i39, 144, i53, i55» 157 

Billings, Josh 9, 18, 96 

Black, Hugh 80,83 

Boved 33 m pgSte 

Bridges, M 47 

Brooks, Phillips . 24, 30, 33, 53, 67, 77, 81, 95, 96, 117, 

120, 123, 133, 147, 153 
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett . . .46, 52, 106, 116 
Browning, Robert . 12, 14, 39, 53, 58, 65, 69, 70, 71, 105 
Bulwer (Lord Lytton) . . . . . . .114 

Bunyan, John 40, 56, 64 

Burroughs, John 62 

Burton, Richard 57 

Butts, Mary Frances 55, 161 

Byron, Lord 33 

Carey, P 40, 128 

Carlyle, Thomas . 12, 24, 30, 34, 51, 56, 75, no, 118, 140, 142 

Carnegie, Andrew 127 

Chalmers 130, 138 

Chadwick, John White 88 

Charming, William Henry 87 

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Chesterfield, Lord 131 

Cicero 101 

Clarendon, Lord . . . . . . . .27 

Clarke, James Freeman 22 

Child, L. M. 86 

Cowper 63, 70 

Cooke, Edmund Vance 109, 125 

Davis, Ozora Stearns 86 

De Sales, St. Francis 80 

Dickens, Charles . . . .21, 27, 70, 71, 88, 100 

Disraeli 153 

Drummond, Henry 82, 90, 139 

H^. Du Maurier, George .117 

Edwards, Jonathan . . 145 

Eliot, George, 12,22,24, 31,90 117, 118, 136, 142, 144, 155, 162 
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 10, 12, 13, 31, 75, 80, 96, 97, 118, 

125, 126, 129, 144, 148, 159, 160 

Epictetus 41, 53, 58, 114 

Faber, F. W 99 

Farrar, Canon 14 

Fenelon 110 

Fields, J. T 95 

Fleming, Paul . . . . . . . . 58, 94 

Franklin, Benjamin 14, 53, 104, no 

French .40 

Froude, James Anthony . . . . . 12,53,56 

Fuller, T . . 33 

Gladstone, W. E 40, 50 

Goethe 48, 56, 108, 115, 135 

Gough, John B 141 

Hale, Edward Everett 132 

Haliburton 16 

Hamilton, Alexander 11 1 




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Hamilton, James . * * . > ♦ . . 136 
Hamilton, Anna E. . . . . . . . .48 

Hamilton, Gail 142 

Harmsworth, Alfred 34 

Hegeman, A. B 21, 37 

Helps, Arthur . . . .16, 48, 108, 133, 140, 148 

Henley, W. E 48 

Hepworth, George H 75 

Hill, James J 26,119,127 

Hodges, Leigh Mitchell ...... 25 

Holland, J. G 36, 43, 124 

Holmes, Oliver W. 46, 122, 148 

Hood, Thomas 98 

Hughes, Thomas . . . . 15, 42, 60, 77, 120 

Hugo, Victor 75 

Ingelow, Jean 124 

Johnson, Samuel 44, 60 

Jefferson, Thomas . . . . . 128 V^ST 

Jerome, J. K 100 

Kempis, Thomas a* 14 

Ken, Bishop 54 

Kingsley, Charles 60, 102, 124 

Knapp, Lillian 14 

Kipling, Rudyard 84, 90 

Landor., W. S. .63 

Larcom, Lucy . 129 

La Rochefoucauld . 70 

Lincoln, Abraham . . . 22,29,66,87,107,113 
Longfellow, Henry W. 92, 100, 109, no, 114, 116, 121, 125 

Lorimer, George Horace 20, 70 

Lowell, James Russell 98, 10 1 

Lubbock, John . . . . . . . 61, 87 

Mabie, Hamilton Wright . . . 20, 25, 69, 100 





HELPS TO HAPPINESS 




MacDonald, George 16, 60, 69, 104, 128, 147 

Maclaren, Ian 46, 61 

Marden, Orison Swett . . . . . . 122 

Mason, C. A 77 

Manutius, Aldus Pius 33 

Mathews, William 31 

Meredith, Owen 17 

Micah . . . .128 

Montaigne 140 

Moody, D. L. . 48 

Morgan, Angela ........ 45 

Mulock, Dinah Maria 127 

Napoleon I . . 16, 123, 148 

Paine, Thomas 46 

Patmore, Coventry 123 

Peabody, Ephraim 165 

Peace, W. S . .24 

Penn, William 66, 73 

Plato . . . . . . . .22 

Porter 93 

Potter, Henry C. 95 

Procter, A 111 

Pusey, E. B. . . . . . . . 91, 95 

Quincy, Josiah 66 

Quarles, F 72 

Richardson 22 

Richter 66, 71 

Robertson, F. W. . . . .22, 88, 92 

Rockefeller, John D 28 

Roosevelt, Theodore 20, 21, 27, 61, 63, 67, 68, 75, 86, 87, 98 
Ruskin, John . . 14)27,36,41,51,54,59,102,110,137 

Ryan, Father 118 

Ryder, Annie H 144 




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Scandinavian Proverb 73 

Scott, Walter 20, 83 

Seneca 69 

Sertorius 102 

Shakespeare, William . . .20, 25, 63, 67, 86, 96, 105 

Shaw, Leslie M 18, 60, 61, 67, 86, 92 

Sheridan, Thomas 122 

Sidney, Philip 18, 67 

Smiles, Samuel 16, 24, 108, 136 

Socrates 36, 51 

Solomon . . .13 

Southey 13 

Spencer, Herbert 114 

Stevenson, Robert Louis . 7, 40, 42, 45, 46, 58, 59, 79, 106 
Stetson, Charlotte Perkins . . . .. . .76 

Story, W. W. 42, 74 

Swing, David 56 

Sumner, Charles 41 

Swett 106 

Syrus, Publius 41 

Thackeray 41 

Tennyson, Alfred 166 

Thoreau, Henry David . . .17, 52, 113, 138, 140 

Tullock 13 

Van Dyke, Henry . 10, 18, 36, 38, 48, 108, 124, 134, 140 

Vincent, John H 10 

Wagner, Charles 34, 134, *3 8 

Ward, Artemus 75 

Ware, J. F. W 105, 128 

Washington, George 34, 138 

Waterman, Nixon 120, 151 

Wayland, H. L 83 

Webster, Daniel . . . . . . . 137 





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Whitman, M. B. 19 

Whittier, John G. . . . . 73,112,139,154 
Wiggin, Kate Douglass . . . . . . 160 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 142 

Williams, Roger ....... 90 

Wise, Henry D. 106 

Wordsworth 136, 146 

Young, Edward 17 




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